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Opinion: Not Striking Syria Will Cripple U.S. Credibility

Former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl on why nonintervention will lead to more and bigger international conflicts.

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... the earlier today with former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl about why he ... and Senator Joe Lieberman argued on our pages today ... for US intervention in Syria to very big names a very important piece ... that was snowing so ... welcome to the show's center ... here for wrote ... and again congratulations on your op ed that ... you and Senator Lieberman argued that ... the notion that a strike in Syria to salvage U S credibility abroad that I read that and I thought ... hasn't the president ... already done that will a missile strike ... really achieve that goal the hearing before ... a ... vote to Congress does not support ... the president ... U S credibility ... will ... be diminished ... and if the president thereby so it did not go forward with a skirt that he is talking publicly about ... it will ... seriously the road ... bowled over hell and appreciation for sport ... and our potential enemies fear of the United States so you don't believe the ruminations of Ardi taken the measure of this process ... I think they probably haven't neglected concluded that huge ... strongly ... that they don't have to put much stock in what he said to be careful ... of what threatens to do that's why it is so critical that the Congress the United States ... but the president Col Steele saw some ... people in Congress and raise the question of trust ... they wanna back the measure they appreciate your argument that they say ... based on the president's for example promise to arm the rebels and he didn't do it ... can we really trust this president to do with the sense ... well I have my own ... present Obama ticket he got ... into some pretty bad last year including this one ... but the appointed which it so it's not about the president that ... the credibility of the United States ... and the fact is we are not a credible nation used an arm or ... then we will have a bigger war fight bigger problems faced down the road because he said ... Alice Walker will help them in our enemies fear that would lead to confirm the epic and a small let's let's turn the ends of the strategy going for it because it in your op ed today EU and Senator Lieberman talked about and I quote ... a smarter stronger and more accountable serious strategy ... wouldn't you mean that ... I primarily Democratic Sen Lieberman are ... pretty closely in agreement on this ... what we mean is generally what Senators McCain and Lindsey Graham have been talking about ... the need to hide whatever military action is taken here to orchard spirited too ... he eventually ... be in a position where ... a better reason is ruling the country a program where ... it did not terrorists to help her that the ... two inter but the moderate forces in Syria that would be ... a much better ... much better leader to ... start is ... and would be ... more ... likely to align with each of the United States has opposed ... to overreact so do you do you support us on the ground or not ... I don't think that that ... certain you should never ... say never in the case for Apple and some ... special forces in the rescue him or something like that but in terms of the beast ... become a ... military operation ... we got lesson thirty seconds left of the the special operations team to go in and secure this chemical weapons ... well that's not the kind of thing when we talk about in the house and so ... I'm certain that ... ok we're going have to leave it that ... the former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl thank you so much for being